Benchmarking asymmetric 3D-2D face recognition systems

Asymmetric 3D-2D face recognition (FR) aims to recognize individuals from 2D face images using textured 3D face models in the gallery (or vice versa). This new FR scenario has the potential to be readily deployable in field applications while still keeping the advantages of 3D FR solutions of being more robust to pose and lighting variations. In this paper, we propose a new experimental protocol based on the UHDB11 dataset for benchmarking 3D-2D FR algorithms. This new experimental protocol allows for the study of the performance of a 3D-2D FR solution under pose and/or lighting variations. Furthermore, we also benchmarked two state of the art 3D2D FR algorithms. One is based on the Annotated Deformable Model (using manually labeled landmarks in this paper) using manually labeled landmarks whereas the other makes use of Oriented Gradient Maps along with an automatic pose estimation through random forest.